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Tis the season – Brotherhood of the Wolf – Le Pacte des Loupes

“The Brotherhood of the Wolf” plays like an explosion at the genre factory. When the smoke clears, a rough beast lurches forth, its parts cobbled together from a dozen movies. The film involves quasi-werewolves, French aristocrats, secret societies, Iroquois Indians, martial arts, occult ceremonies, sacred mushrooms, swashbuckling, incestuous longings, political subversion, animal spirits, slasher scenes and bordellos, and although it does not end with the words “based on a true story,” it is.

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I better look for this! Put me down for quasi-werewolves (whatever they are), aristocrats (if they are villains), Iroquois warriors, secret societies – oh heck, I’ll just take the whole sampler. Thanks for the info.

I’ve known about Brotherhood of the Wolf (great title) for years but now I really want to see it! Thanks Vickie!
Apropos of nothing, have you ever seen Donnie Darko (original theatrical cut)? I LOVE that movie: stunning use of sound, cinematography, and editing, a bewitching blend of Love, time travel, paradoxes, mental illness, dark humour, pain, creepy high school choreography, hypocrisy, Strangeness and Beauty. The use of music is stunning too. The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen), Under the Milky Way (The Church), and Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears) have never sounded so good, but the killer is a cover of Mad World used in a context that tears my heart out EVERY TIME. Not only that, but the cast, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Beth Grant, Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone, Patrick Swayze, Katherine Ross etc. is eclectic and rarely better. An off-kilter film for Halloween that actually *takes place* partly on Halloween! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…you’ll say “what was that?!” I adore it. Ahem. Could you tell?!